Guftagoo with Anuradha Kapur

Anuradha Kapur is Director, National School of Drama, New Delhi. She was educated at the University of Delhi and Leeds. She was associated with the theatre group Dishantar from its inception. She has written widely on the theatre and her book - Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: the Ramlila at Ramnagar was published by Seagull Books, Calcutta. She has taught and directed in India and abroad. Among her acclaimed productions are Tagore's Ghar aur Bahar, and Gora, Umrao, Romeo and Juliet , The Job, Sundari: an Actor Prepares, a play based on the life of Jaishankar Sundari, Ibsen's Wild Duck in collaboration with Ein Lall; a Hindi version of JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls and many others. She has co-directed along with Makoto Sato a dance/theatre collaboration between Indian and Japanese dancers. She is one of the founder members of Vivadi, a working group of painters, musicians, writers and theatre practitioners, which was formed in 1989. She has been invited to conferences at the University of Berkeley, California, USA, the University of Cambridge, UK University of Tubingen, Germany, Tokyo, Brazil, Berlin and Korea. She was invited to curate the performance window "actors at work" at body.city, an event citing contemporary Indian culture at the House of World Cultures, Berlin. Her theatre work has travelled widely, among other countries to Germany, Japan, Brazil, UK, and Korea. She has also conducted theatre making and workshop sessions in Korea, Berlin, London, Japan among other cities.

Anchor: Irfan